Felicity Party

The Felicity Party is an Islamist political party in Turkey which was founded on 20 July 2001 as the hardline successor of the banned Virtue Party (whose reformist wing formed the Justice and Development Party). The party condemned Turkey's relationships with the United States, Israel, and the European Union, and it supported an anti-Western foreign policy. It had party branches in nearly every district, small town, and city in the country, organizing Islamist demonstrations with tens of thousands of participants.